Arrests of 3 Students for Dormitory Burning
On Tuesday, July 25, the police arrested three St. Mary’s Ndeiya Girls students who they said had set fire to their hostel. The pupils are being arrested at the Tigoni Police Station pending questioning after being identified by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI).
236 children, or nearly half the population, were impacted by the fire event, according to Kariuki Mwangi, the Ndeiya Sub-County Education Director. There were 177 more losses in terms of bedding and personal items because the fire also damaged other dorms.
In total, 410 students were affected by the fire. The incident which occurred on the night of Saturday, July 22, left scores of students out in the cold. Firefighters and medics from the Kenya Airport Authority, however, were swift in salvaging the situation.
As a result, the school was permanently closed while waiting for the board’s guidance on what to do next. The administration announced that school was putting steps in place to guarantee that the academic calendar wouldn’t be impacted and that students could return to their studies on schedule. Engineer John Kiragu of the Limuru Constituency legislature provided 250 mattresses to lessen the damage and spare the parents the expense of purchasing new ones. The administration will be involved as well, Kiragu promised, “so that there is proper surveillance through CCTV so that we can watch everything going on in the school.” The congressman mentioned that his office had set aside money through the NG-CDF emergency reserve to help parents rebuild a modernized dormitory.
